Rants and raves about the mess of higher education in the United States.

Friday, August 31, 2018

Poo-Bah Overrules Vote, Removes Statue of Jefferson’s Grandson

By Professor Doom

We’re trained as a
people to respect the sanctity of the vote. If the people vote a certain way,
then that’s the way it should go. I can’t quite break that conditioning, as it
does strike me as a decent way to make decisions, at least up to a point (hi
Bill of Rights!).

Trouble is, this
process has been corrupted. I’m not simply talking about voter fraud here,
although that’s pretty huge and another factor. The problem I have with how
it’s done today is, if the people vote the way the leaders want (and the
leaders have endless money and other capacity to convince people to vote that
way), then it very quickly gets done that way, and the issue is never addressed
again.

For example, I’d
love to have another vote on income tax, since it’s clearly gone far beyond
what it was promised to be (namely, only a tax on the very wealthy)…but, too
bad, my grandfather apparently voted for it, and so we’re stuck with it forever.
I’d love to be able to vote to get rid of all the victimless traffic fines—the typical
response when people see a highwayman’s car (i.e., “police car”) on the road
today is fear because of their primary activity. But, somehow, that vote option
never seems to come up again.

On the other
hand, if people vote against what the
leaders want…the vote just comes up again next year. If you vote to raise sales
tax, for example, it goes up and stays up forever. If the tax fails to get
enough votes, well, then, the people have to vote it down again next year, and
the year after, and the year after, and so on.

Even when the
vote can’t come up again, the leaders really drag their feet when it comes to
enacting “the will of the people” if they can get away with it (Hi Brexit!). Of
course, if the leaders are powerful enough to simply overrule the vote and do
what they wanted to do in the first place, they’ll do that, and nowhere are
leaders more powerful than on campus, leading to today’s topic:

The Leftist
takeover of our campuses is often presented as a student-initiated movement,
but I have my doubts. The above campus had a statue of Jefferson’s grandson on
it, and somehow the lunatics running the place were offended by the grandson of someone who owned slaves. I
guess they had reasons:

the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
chapter at FSU had spearheaded a referendum in 2016 calling for the Eppes
statue’s removal on the grounds that he was “especially racist” and “especially
pro-slavery.”

--emphasis
added.

For years now,
the weapon of “RACIST” has been bashed against the head of every enemy of these
guys. Bottom line, it’s been used so much it’s blunted. So now they have to
label people “especially” racist for
the weapon’s blows to even register. Sheesh.

And so that
statue needed to go. I still suspect this has as much to do with his
relationship to Jefferson as with his own, alleged, actions. What has happened
to us as a people that we’re remotely capable of holding a grandchild
responsible for the actions of a grandparent who died scores of years ago? For
what it’s worth, a Leftist hellhole called North Korea does hold grandchildren responsible for the actions of dead
grandparents (click the link you don’t believe me)….I only mention this
because it really seems like the goal of the Leftists running so many of our
campuses may well be to turn them into little North Koreas.

Much like with
Donald Trump’s Hollywood star, it seems the lunatic left is determined to erase
even trifling evidence of things they don’t like, such as the liberty Jefferson
thought was a good idea. But there needed to be a vote, and the students voted
very strongly (70%) to keep the statue. Good for them! If they had voted to
remove the statue, I assure the gentle reader it would have been removed
overnight, and there would never be a vote to put the statue back.

Our leaders, oh so
eager to extoll the virtues of democracy when it goes their way, have a
completely different view when the vote goes against them (hi Hillary!). The
Poo Bah of this campus is no different and simply overrules the student vote:

…he will not only remove the Eppes statue,
but will also seek legislative approval to erase former Florida Supreme Court
Justice B.K. Robert’s name from the main building at the College of Law.

--I won’t
bother to address the un-personing of Robert. It’s sick that the dead are being
attacked this way for beliefs which were pretty common in their day, however.

And…that’s that.
I’ve said many times the power our campus Poo-Bahs wield is absolute, and I
feel this is an unarguable example. The worst case scenario, assuming any
fallout from the gross abuse of power, is the Poo-Bah will be removed, and
granted a huge golden parachute on the way out. To add insult to injury, he’ll
use his fluorescent virtue-signaling here in boldly overruling a vote and bravely
having his minions destroy a statue to land another plum position in higher ed
in short order.

I grant that this
is petty tyranny, but I assure the gentle reader: if this is the lengths these
Leftists will go to over something as piffling as a statue, you can bet they’re
more than willing to destroy all of higher education in pursuit of their
ideology.

There is a small
protest against this abuse of power, but it’s irrelevant:

The FSU College Republicans vehemently
condemned Thrasher’s decision in a statement on its Facebook page,
saying the school’s president “has decided to cave in to the whims of the loud
minority...in lieu of listening to the overwhelming 71.7% majority of FSU
students who voted to keep the Eppes statue in place less than two years ago.”

The gentle reader
should understand there is no call to remove statues of Lincoln, or even Martin
Luther King, Jr., even though they too were less than perfect. The people who
disagree with these historical figures have too much decency to assault the
dead, you see, and that’s something the Poo-Bah here, and others of his ilk,
simply do not possess.

In the meantime,
any prospective student considering going to college should absolutely avoid
this place, as there’s no reason to suspect education will be a priority here.
Instead, the priority will be whatever the Poo-Bah wants it to be, namely,
plenty of loot for himself and advancement of ideology, as per the tenets of
campus edu-fascism.